Independent Performance Consultant Resume
SUMMARY:
Experienced Business Development and Channel Sales professional with a decade in Information Technology Software, Hardware, and Services sales. Extensive experience in enablement/education and organizational development. Known for leading collaboration with cross - functional teams to grow sales and services in emerging or complex solutions, and driving partner investment in these areas.
EXPERTISE AREA:
- Relationship Development
- Business Development
- Enablement and Training
- Channel, Alliance Sales
- Sales Strategies and Campaigns
- Product - Services Integration
- Analysis and Reporting
- Information Security
- Information Management
- Human Performance Improvement
- Instructional Design
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
Independent Performance Consultant
Confidential
Responsibilities:
- Provide consulting services to organizations with needs related to: Learning and Development, Organizational Development, Business Process Mapping and Modeling, Instructional Systems Design, Curriculum and Course Analysis, Design, Development, Implementation, and Evaluation.
- Develop training or enablement in many form factors.
Confidential
Channel Strategic Programs Officer
Responsibilities:
- Spearheaded Technical Business Development initiatives to target, recruit and enable channel partners, and to drive partner sales growth in Confidential solutions.
- Secured commitment from early-adopter partners to invest in emerging solutions. Connected partners with the engineering and product management resources to enable partners’ technical resources before product general availability.
- Led strategic initiative to target, recruit and enable channel partners, to engage them in assessment-led selling with field sales teams.
- Managed intake process and enablement for partners attempting to achieve Expert in the Expert Competency Partner Program.
Confidential
Independent Performance Consultant
Responsibilities:
- Led initiatives to improve partner experience, leverage partner service practices, and to align partner’s go-to-market to optimize sales in Confidential solutions.
- Led process improvements to partner Expert Competency program, and improved pass rate from 65% to 95% year over year.
- Defined and rolled out common process for early channel engagement for emerging solutions.
- Led initiatives to target specific partners based on technical and business criteria, and persuade them to invest in emerging solutions.
Confidential
Independent Performance Consultant
Responsibilities:
- Designed and executed partner Mobile Management strategy.
- Recruited net new mobility services partners to invest in Confidential solutions.
- In last quarter of fiscal year, secured four new mobility services organizations to join partner program,
- Connected partner technical teams with product management to advise “as a service” offerings.
- Led strategic initiatives to enable channel partners, and to optimize partner sales in Confidential solutions.
Practice Manager
Confidential
Responsibilities:
- Established selection criteria for focus partners, then identified, recruited, enabled and monitored top partners in the solution space, and engaged them with product management and sales organizations.
- Exceeded revenue targets through focus partners.
Confidential
Channel Security Sales Specialist
Responsibilities:
- Team leader of 6 Channel Security Sales Specialists, tasked to grow security solution sales through the channel.
- Established selection criteria for target partners, then identified, recruited, enabled and monitored top partners in each security solution space.
- Aligned and engaged partners with product management and sales organizations.
- Helped guide channel strategy for Mergers and Acquisition team for new products.
- Trained partners in every security solution in our portfolio.
- Exceeded sales quota each year in this role.
- Channel Security Sales Specialist of the year for 2011. President’s club.
Confidential
Independent Performance Consultant
Responsibilities:
- Secured partners to commit to partner-led services program for both pre-and post-sales engagements in the IT Risk and Compliance space.
- Demonstrated customer retention and renewal gain through partner-led Health Check program.
- Exceeded revenue targets for sales through target partners.
- Led a successful pilot program in Central region, the results of which led to the expansion of the pilot to a national program.
Confidential
Partner/Independent Consultant
Responsibilities:
- Sold services, training, and products around technology, business process, and human integration.
- Led a wide variety of initiatives around technology integration including business process analysis and design, instructional systems design, communications plans, and human performance assessment and improvement.
- Delivered solutions in a variety of client industries included manufacturing, financial, business advisory, insurance, health care, SLED, retail, and others.